Drake didn’t seem too fussed when news of his album 'Thank Me Later' leaked online for many to download, commenting on his twitter “I gave away free music for years so we’re good over here.”

Recently speaking to LifeFiles.com regards the leaks he goes on to say “”I always say, if I would have put out an album that was poor quality, I think the leaks would have hurt me. Because a lot of the feedback has been great, it can only help.” Check out the video below where he says more stuff, and also something about Basketball (because as if that wasn’t going to happen!).

Drake Talks Album Leaks & Musical Inspirations! from the.LIFE Files on Vimeo.

Also, The Game also put his verdict regards to album leaks, saying “Every album is getting leaked from now until the duration of hip-hop, it’s just once it hits the plant, or once a radio station gets their promo, somebody is gonna leak the album. You can look forward to it being leaked a week early or whatever. It’s gonna get leaked.”

Charmillionaire (is he still popular?) and Paul Wall (is he as well?) also joined the leakage bandwagon, saying an MC’s rage is definitely at a high when an album gets leaked, but for the majority of the ride after it doesn’t hurt too much.

“You can’t not be bothered by that,” Chamillionaire spoke on MTV News. “Because you wonder, is that a sale that I could have made? You hate to see all your hard work that you went to the studio doing. We done seen bootleggers riding 28s. We like, ‘Man, they eating good off of us.’ But we understand; you just gotta give them that music. If it’s dope, they gonna come buy it. I don’t think Drake or anybody else should worry if it’s dope. If people want it, it’s gonna create enough hype. 50 Cent, even Lil Wayne, everybody suffered from leaks and some people benefited from it.”

Paul Walls view: “If the album don’t sell good — that’s just not Drake, this is every artist — then [they say], ‘Oh, it got bootlegged.’ If it does great, then they’ll be like, ‘Oh, it does great ’cause the bootleg got out, and it let everybody know this was legit.’ It goes both ways.”

What do you think? Leaks helping more than they hurt?